Metadata
Title
Gilbert Tennent sermons 145, Funeral sermon of Rev Mr. John Campbell and Samuel Hazard, Elder in Second Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, 1758
Date
1758
Digital Identifier
PHS.TennentSermons145
Description
Gilbert Tennent (1703-1764) was an Irish-American Presbyterian clergyman, and one of the leaders of the Great Awakening.
Tennent delivered this sermon at the funeral of Reverend Mr. John Campbell and Samuel Hazard, an elder at Second Presbyterian, in 1758. He begins by citing Revelation 14:13, "And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them."
Tennent delivered this sermon at the funeral of Reverend Mr. John Campbell and Samuel Hazard, an elder at Second Presbyterian, in 1758. He begins by citing Revelation 14:13, "And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them."
Subject
Place
Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
Congregation
Second Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, PA
Holding Institution
Presbyterian Historical Society
Extent
42 pages
Format (Digital)
tiff
Rights
http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Language
eng
Type
Text
Abstract
Funeral sermon of Rev. Mr. John Campbell and Mr. Samuel Hazard, Elder in 2nd Presbyterian Church.
A funeral sermon for two active men who died suddenly and close together in 1758.
Those being honored are not mentioned until very late in the sermon and on separate pages, the Elder almost as an afterthought, and the minister given a brief mention. Was this being a sermon that decided such late mention of their names and worthiness?
Was it to comfort the bereaved or did Rev. Tennent's belief that he was one of the Elect gives him the assurance to dare to discuss the afterlife as comprehensively as he did?
The theme is Revelation 14:13 that begins "those that die in the Lord" --their struggles in this life, with an exploration of the afterlife, offering an extensive description of what heaven will look like, full of light and opulence and generous spaces, a figurative rendering based on earthly notions of splendor and Biblical descriptions of the New Jerusalem. There are references to astronomy and the stars. There are details on those who had "died in the Lord:" their throngs, their pre-eminence, and some touching imaginings: their admission to heaven, conducted by good-natured angels, their reaching perfection of their knowledge, where we struggle on earth to achieve only imperfect attainment, and their delightful conversation, a skill prized among earthlings but brought to fullest savor in heaven.
However -- the loss of two such men close together shows God's displeasure with the church, and requires soul-searching and prayer. A group of questions urges congregants to self-examine.
The manuscript has been reviewed to add punctuation, and the pages ware (mostly) numbered, perhaps looking toward printing, but several numbered pages have additional pages added to them and became numbers + a's and b's in modern collation; one page was deleted almost entirely, and there are unnumbered pages as well, so that this appears to be very much a draft copy, or a MS assembled from various copies, with additions assigned asterisks, small rectangles, or equals-signs to assign their topics, but not necessarily their sequence.
A funeral sermon for two active men who died suddenly and close together in 1758.
Those being honored are not mentioned until very late in the sermon and on separate pages, the Elder almost as an afterthought, and the minister given a brief mention. Was this being a sermon that decided such late mention of their names and worthiness?
Was it to comfort the bereaved or did Rev. Tennent's belief that he was one of the Elect gives him the assurance to dare to discuss the afterlife as comprehensively as he did?
The theme is Revelation 14:13 that begins "those that die in the Lord" --their struggles in this life, with an exploration of the afterlife, offering an extensive description of what heaven will look like, full of light and opulence and generous spaces, a figurative rendering based on earthly notions of splendor and Biblical descriptions of the New Jerusalem. There are references to astronomy and the stars. There are details on those who had "died in the Lord:" their throngs, their pre-eminence, and some touching imaginings: their admission to heaven, conducted by good-natured angels, their reaching perfection of their knowledge, where we struggle on earth to achieve only imperfect attainment, and their delightful conversation, a skill prized among earthlings but brought to fullest savor in heaven.
However -- the loss of two such men close together shows God's displeasure with the church, and requires soul-searching and prayer. A group of questions urges congregants to self-examine.
The manuscript has been reviewed to add punctuation, and the pages ware (mostly) numbered, perhaps looking toward printing, but several numbered pages have additional pages added to them and became numbers + a's and b's in modern collation; one page was deleted almost entirely, and there are unnumbered pages as well, so that this appears to be very much a draft copy, or a MS assembled from various copies, with additions assigned asterisks, small rectangles, or equals-signs to assign their topics, but not necessarily their sequence.
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